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DANIA

Con artists swipe jewelry

Several pieces of jewelry were stolen from an elderly couple by a pair of con artists, police said.

The wife told police that a man knocked on her door in the 2900 block of Lakeshore Drive, west of Dania, about 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 9 and told her that he was installing a fence at a neighboring residence.

The man asked the victim whether she could help him find the property line, police said.

The woman escorted the man to her back yard. While she was showing him the area, the man told her that he was going to get a tape measure and would be right back, police said.

When the man didn't return after a few moments the woman went to check on his whereabouts. When she returned to the house, her husband said the man had entered the residence and had been talking with him.

Police think that the man first lured the woman to the rear yard so that while she was there he could enter her home and distract the husband while a second man could enter the house and take the jewelry.